Clinging Quotes - Page 5

• Bitterness is a result of clinging to negative experiences. It serves you no good, and closes the door to your future.

  Leon Brown

  Life, Doors, Negative Experiences

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• In Tibetan, authentic presence is wangthang, which literally means, 'field of power'... The cause or the virtue that brings about authentic presence is emptying out and letting go. You have to be without clinging.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Letting Go, Mean, Power

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• Give up all forms of parrotry. Start practicing whatever you truly feel to be true and justly to be just. Do not make a show of your faith and beliefs. You have not to give up your religion, but to give up clinging to the husk of mere ritual and ceremony. To get to the fundamental core of Truth underlying all religions, reach beyond religion.

  Meher Baba

  Giving Up, Diversity, Fundamentals

  "The Everything and the Nothing". Book by Meher Baba, 1963.

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• See what your misery is, what desires are causing it, and why you are clinging to those desires. And it is not for the first time that you are clinging to those desires; this has been the pattern of your whole life and you have not arrived anywhere. You go on in circles, you never come to any real growth. You remain childish, stupid. And you are born with the intelligence that can make you a buddha, but it is lost in unnecessary things.

  Rajneesh

  Stupid, Real, Circles

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• Life is a flux, nothing abides. Still we are such fools, we go on clinging. If change is the nature of life, then clinging is stupidity, because your clinging is not going to change the law of life. Your clinging is only going to make you miserable. Things are bound to change; whether you cling or not does not matter. If you cling you become miserable: you cling and they change, you feel frustrated. If you don`t cling they still change, but then there is no frustration because you were perfectly aware that they are bound to change. This is how things are, this is the suchness of life.

  Rajneesh

  Frustration, Law, Stupidity

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• Remember: no attachment should grow, no clinging should grow. They are all against your independence, your freedom, your individuality.

  Rajneesh

  Attachment, Independence, Individuality

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• All duality is a mind creation, all duality is created by the clinging and attached mind. When there is no attachment there is no duality.

  Rajneesh

  Attachment, Mind, Creation

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• This is the whole secret of non-attachment: live in the world, but don't be of the world. Love people, but don't create attachments. Reflect people, reflect the beauties of the world - and there are so many. But don't cling. The clinging mind loses its mirrorhood. And mirrorhood is Buddhahood. To keep that quality of mirroring continuously fresh is to remain young, is to remain pure, is to remain innocent. Know, but don't create knowledge. Love, but don't create desire. Live, live beautifully, live utterly, abandon yourself in the moment. But don't look back. This is the art of non-attachment.

  Rajneesh

  Art, Attachment, World Love

  Rajneesh (Bhagwan Shree), Swami Krishna Prem (1984). “From I to Q”

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• Misery comes the moment you become clinging, attached. The moment you put conditions on life.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Misery, Moments

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• Men are clinging to football on a level we aren't even aware of. For centuries, we ruled everything, and now, in the last ten minutes, there are all these incursions by women. It's our Alamo.

  Tony Kornheiser

  Football, Men, Levels

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• Desire is a teacher: When we immerse ourselves in it without guilt, shame, or clinging, it can show us something special about our own minds that allows us to embrace life fully.

  Mark Epstein

  Inspirational, Teacher, Mind

  Mark Epstein (2006). “Open to Desire: The Truth About What the Buddha Taught”, p.12, Penguin

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• If you vanquish ego-clinging today, tonight you will be enlightened.

  Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

  Freedom, Ego, Inspire

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• Night and gin and music-the right setting for peeling off the thin clinging layers of bullshit and finding one's way down closer to the essential self.

  John D. MacDonald

  Music, Night, Self

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• Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.

  Gloria Steinem

  Past, Answers, Problem

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• For those struggling in midstream, in great fear of the flood, of growing old and of dying for all those I say, an island exists where there is no place for impediments, no place for clinging: the island of no going beyond. I call it nirvana, the complete destruction of old age and dying.

  Gautama Buddha

  Spiritual, Struggle, Islands

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• Rid of craving and without clinging, an expert in the study of texts, and understanding the right sequence of the words, he may indeed be called "In his last body", "Great in wisdom" and a "Great man."

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Men, Understanding

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• When one is overcome by this wretched, clinging desire in the world, one's sorrows increase like grass growing up after a lot of rain.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Growing Up, Rain

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• Those... who find delight in freedom from attachment in the renunciation of clinging, free from the inflow of thoughts, they are like shining lights, having reached final liberation in the world.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Light, Attachment

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• I, the dreamer clinging yet to the dream as the patient clings to the last thin unbearable ecstatic instant of agony in order to sharpen the savor of the pain's surcease, waking into the reality, the more than reality, not to the unchanged and unaltered old time but into a time altered to fit the dream which, conjunctive with the dreamer, becomes immolated and apotheosized

  William Faulkner

  Dream, Pain, Reality

  William Faulkner (1951). “Absalom, Absalom!”

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• Firstly, the farmers, the most stupid set of people in existence, who, clinging to feudal prejudices, burst forth in masses, ready to die rather than cease to obey those whom they, their fathers and grandfathers, had called their masters; and submitted to be trampled on and horse-whipped by.

  Friedrich Engels

  Horse, Father, Stupid

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• I despise the cowardly clinging to life, purely for the sake of life, that seems so deeply ingrained in the American temperament.

  Christopher Lasch

  Sake, Despise, Temperament

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• See for yourself whether letting go when a part of you really wants to hold on doesn't bring a deeper satisfaction than clinging.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Letting Go, Want, Satisfaction

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion

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• That little bird has chosen his shelter. Above it are the stars and the deep heaven of worlds. Yet he is rocking himself to sleep without caring for tomorrow's lodging, calmly clinging to his little twig, and leaving God to think for him.

  Martin Luther

  Stars, Sleep, Caring

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• I see you over there, just clinging to the wall. Because they told you like ivy you were bound to crawl. But you kept looking up, girl, and I know why. You knew someday you were gonna touch the sky.

  John Hiatt

  Girl, Wall, Sky

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• We like to continue to believe what we have been accustomed to accept as true, and the resentment aroused when doubt is cast upon any of our assumptions leads us to seek every manner of excuse for clinging to them. The result is that most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.

  James Harvey Robinson

  Believe, Doubt, Resentment

  James Harvey Robinson (1939). “The Mind in the Making”

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